Square photo composition skills guide

- Focus on the center -

First of all, canvas prints compared with rectangular composition, if the picture of square composition can be concise and clear, and if the shooting focus is on or near the center of the square, it is easy to achieve the effect of highlighting the main body, photos on canvas that people can know where to put their eyes after seeing it.

Minus our composition

Perhaps many people in the photography composition can be divided into three composition method, but feel that the half-split picture looks more rigid. However, in square photos, if the semi-composition can skillfully use light and shadow and color, so that the main body and the background leave a sharp contrast, it is often unexpected.

- White -

In addition to making the shooting subject close to the center of the square to highlight the main body, a large area of blank space is left in the picture, which is also a simple composition skill to keep the picture concise and the main body prominent. White space is used not only in rectangular composition, but also in the composition of square photographs.

- Symmetry -

Since the square itself has a sense of balance, using symmetry for composition is a very practical technique. Especially when photographing buildings, it can show the magnificent atmosphere of buildings

- Using lines -

Taking pictures of buildings is a favorite theme of many mobile photographers, who tend to skillfully use natural lines such as arc lines to shoot semi-circles and partially combine buildings and people. Although a square has less visual elongation than a rectangular perspective, it can be made up by using lines.

-frame the view

It can be a little boring to take photos with various techniques. If you are a person who likes to take photos everywhere with your mobile phone, you can try to frame some scenes with a misalignment, which is more interesting than a regular square photo

- The main body is covered with pictures

When encountering daily clutter, flowers, plants, food and other subjects, you can spread them all over the picture, and then take flat or vertical shots. This is how pretend ability comes up.

-cut some of it off

Compared with the relatively conservative composition of the rectangle, photo collage the square can be bolder in using the open composition, cutting off part of the main body and destroying its integrity.